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| Name | Class |
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| Department of Health and Human Services | FED |
| Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. | OTHER |
| Public Health - Seattle and King County | OTHER_GOV |
| Reproductive Health National Training Center |
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The goal of this randomized trial is to learn if the Stepping Stones (StSt) intervention has a positive impact on the sexual health and relationship behaviors of sexually active youth between the ages of 12 and 22 years old who are at risk for or involved in the legal or child welfare systems. The primary research questions it aims to answer are:
Researchers will compare participants randomized to receive StSt (treatment group) to participants randomized to receive a control condition that contains no sexual or reproductive health information (control group).
Participants randomized to the treatment group will be offered StSt as an in-person or virtual, individual-based intervention delivered over four sessions during a 6-8 week period. Participants randomized to the control group will be offered a virtually delivered control condition.
This is an individual-level, randomized control trial to rigorously evaluate the impact of the Stepping Stones (StSt) intervention. Participant outcomes will be assessed using self-reported, individual-level data gathered using a structured questionnaire administered at three time points: baseline (enrollment); three months post-intervention (five months after baseline); and nine months post-intervention (eleven months after baseline).
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Stepping Stones | Experimental |
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| Like | Sham Comparator |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Stepping Stones (StSt) | Behavioral | StSt is an individual-level intervention designed to help youth make healthy decisions. StSt is delivered in-person or virtually by an adult guide during four ~30-50 minute sessions over a period of up to 8 weeks. The adult guide leads the youth through health-focused discussions related to identifying personal values, making a social network map, and then creating and refining individualized plans. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Receipt of sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing in the past four months | Participants are asked the following item: 1) Have you been tested for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the past 4 months? The resulting variable is dichotomous with values 0 or 1, where 0 indicates a person who has not received STI testing in the past four months and 1 indicates a person who has received STI testing in the past four months. | Assessed three months after the intervention period has ended (five months post-baseline) |
| Times having vaginal and anal sex without condoms in the past four months | Participants are asked the following two items:
| Assessed nine months after the intervention period has ended (eleven months post-baseline) |
| Perpetration of emotional abuse | Participants are asked how many times in the past four months they have done the following things to a sexual or romantic partner:
The measure is calculated as the average response to all 14 items in the scale. |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Identifies as male or non-binary gender
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Hilary Demby, MPH | Contact | 504-865-545 | hilary@policyandresearch.com | |
| Kelly Burgess, MPH | Contact | 504-865-545 | kelly@policyandresearch.com |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Sarah Walsh, Ph.D. | The Policy & Research Group | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| The Policy & Research Group | Recruiting | New Orleans | Louisiana | 70118 | United States |
A dataset will be prepared at the conclusion of the study, which includes deidentified individual-level data on all study participants who contributed self report data. Respondents will be represented only by a research ID number. Included in the dataset will be self-report data collected across all survey administrations (including demographic characteristics, sexual behaviors, and theoretical antecedents to those behaviors) and select information on program participation (e.g., which program components were completed). Basic data cleaning steps will be taken in order to ensure data are unidentifiable and to increase usability.
The individual participant dataset will become available twelve months after the study has concluded.
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| Like | Behavioral | Like is an hour-long film that discusses the impact of social media on the brain. Study staff will organize for each individual participant to watch the film in-person. The film does not include information related to the outcomes of interest for the study. |
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| Assessed nine months after the intervention period has ended (eleven months post-baseline) |